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Herzl’s Jewish-Arab Utopia, ‘Old New Land’ – Doomed Never to be Realized?
With the exception of Binyamin Netanyahu, perhaps Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s prime ministers, of all political ...
Albania's secret Jewish history, how its population saved Jews during the Holocaust
During WWII, Albania defied the Nazis, sheltering Jews and preserving its tradition of hospitality. Discover how this ...
Debates about Columbus’ Spanish Jewish ancestry are not new − the claim was once a bid for social acceptance
Sephardic Jews coming from the Ottoman Empire – one of the primary places their ancestors sought refuge after Spain – were ...
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Turkish newspaper tries to save a dying Jewish language
For Turkish Jews, preserving Ladino is a historical obligation, says Sami Aker, a journalist at Salom. He notes that Ladino was developed in the Ottoman Empire by Sephardic Jews who arrived as ...
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Is your name on this list? Your Jewish roots might be in Cairo, Baghdad or nearby
(JTA) — In the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire was looking to conscript men into its army, including the several thousand young Jewish ones who were living in the city of Baghdad. The Jewish ...
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The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950
Marc David Baer, Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (Oxford 2008); Marc David Baer, The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks ...
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The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950
Marc David Baer, Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (Oxford 2008); Marc David Baer, The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks ...